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Estimating the basic reproduction number at the beginning of an outbreak

We compare several popular methods of estimating the basic reproduction number, R(0), focusing on the early stages of an epidemic, and assuming weekly reports of new infecteds. We study the situation when data is generated by one of three standard epidemiological compartmental models: SIR, SEIR, and...

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Autores principales: Boonpatcharanon, Sawitree, Heffernan, Jane M., Jankowski, Hanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9205483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35714080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269306